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The endless contest for northern Greece (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

thrace

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'northern greece' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both locations as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'the endless contest' is the wordplay.
'endless' means to remove the last letter.
'contest' becomes 'race' (race is a kind of contest).
'the' with its last letter taken off is 'th'.
'th'+'race'='THRACE'

'for' is the link.

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(Other definitions for thrace that I've seen before include "Ancient region now in Greece and Bulgaria" , "ancient land" , "old part of Europe" , "The car (anag.); historical region" , "Ancient Balkan region" .)

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